Soft Skills

Soft Skills

Soft skills are those competences related to our personality and character, in other words to our emotional intelligence. Soft skills can be divided into four main categories: cognitive, interpersonal, fulfilling and managerial. Cognitive skills, for example, refer to our approach to reasoning, thus our process of analysis, problem solving and synthesis. Interpersonal skills, on the other hand, describe our ability to relate to others and to work in team. Our fulfilling skills refer to our initiative and organization, while our managerial skills refer to our capability to delegate work.

Clearly, our soft skills are different from our technical skills, which include the knowledge of a second language or the ability to manage social media. For an employer, our personality and competences are of crucial importance, sometimes even more than our technical skills. In fact, our soft skills can well compensate our lack of experience or a poor junior CV.

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